Custom URL redirects: variability of both source URL and destination URL and the ability to create more than one redirect.
It would have been amazing if plesk users and admins were able to easily and via the panel create domain redirection like you are able to do in cpanel. http://prntscr.com/1k9mql
This saves a lot of time from users and hosting companies helpdesks.
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In the initital feature request it was not clear that the focus was on a regex driven, variable redirect that depends on source URLs and should be able to provide a mapping between source and target. It is also requested that these redirects shall be done on the front-end web server level, not as an Apache .htaccess solution.
We have re-opened the request as per user comment it was clarified thoroughly. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
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Klantenservice Solution Sprinters commented
Still hoping for this function!
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Yes, I am looking for this functionality.
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Websavers Inc
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This request is asking for variability of both source URL and destination URL and the ability to create more than one redirect.
What Plesk has provided thus far has been strictly the ability to create a single redirect with the source URL (and not subpaths of that URL) that redirect to a variable destination URL.
What is being requested here is the ability to create redirects that don't necessarily redirect the source website as a whole. Examples:
- sourcedomain.com/piglet/(.*) redirects to destinationdomain.com/pig/$1
- sourcedomain.com/donkey/(.*) redirects to destinationdomain.com/donkey/$1You cannot do this with Plesk without manually creating the nginx code or adding to the .htaccess file. Yet in cPanel you can as described in the screenshot provided by the OP.
Don't get me wrong, I greatly appreciate the functionality that has been provided so far.
However a totally separate 'advanced redirects' option would be very handy to have in the UI that generates nginx redirection configurations when nginx proxy is enabled and which generates apache mod_rewrite configurations when nginx proxy is not enabled.
This would avoid the need to utilize a redirections plugin in WordPress (or other CMS) which typically handles the redirections via PHP, which is far less efficient than doing it via the web server, and in particular via nginx.
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Zoe Soon commented
Hey there, unable to find the url redirection, may I know where can we find the option?
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Websavers Inc
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The admin response here is not correct. You can add a domain alias and you can add a domain as a forward. However you cannot create custom redirects for any URL to any URL easily.
The only way to do this currently is via .htaccess which bypasses the performance of nginx.
It would be fantastic if there were a UI to add redirects that nginx handles without the need for an apache process.
Currently this can only be done by a Plesk admin via the apache & nginx settings page. It would be great if regular customers could manage their own redirects as well without it having to be done in .htaccess via apache.
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Websavers Inc
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Please link us to the documentation that shows we can create all forms of redirects in Plesk without using .htaccess or manually entering the syntax in the apache & nginx settings?
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Anonymous
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you can make the page redirect easy like the cpanel , just this page http:/xxxxx.yyy redirect to http://xxxxxx.yyy/zzz
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Anonymous
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i'd like to redirect dl.domain.com to download.domain.com. right now i need a subdomain and an htaccess file. not very handy.
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Anonymous
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If I have 2 domains and 1 hosting, can I redirect one of the domains to a specific folder of the hosting? Eg. domain1.com goes to root folder but domain2.com goes to root/domain2_folder
Thanks.
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Anonymous
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This would save time and speed.